Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.larc.nasa.gov!tadguy From: tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: Re: Setting up DNet Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 15:45:19 GMT References: <1515@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991May16.013123.637@nic.csu.net> Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: rkent@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu's message of 16 May 91 08: 31:21 GMT rkent@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (Rick Kent) writes: > >what sort of terminal emulation does it do? If I can't use > >GnuEmacs with it, this would greatly limit DNet's usefulness to me. > > As far as I can tell so far it appears that fterm doesn't give you any > emulation other than just a standard TTY connection. The `emulation' is that of an Amiga RAW: window. Several termcap files for this terminal type have been posted in the past (including one in comp.sources.amiga), and an amiga termcap/terminfo entry is even included in SunOS 4 (if you're on a Sun...) > There is no vt100 emulation so you can't use any of the full screen > editors (at least not to my knowledge). Niftyterm, recently posted to comp.binaries.amiga supposedly does VT102, VT52 and H19 emulation, and I believe it still works with DNet (though it has been extended to work standalone)... > One of the first client/server projects I intend to write is an > ftp-like file transfer client. Cool! ...tad